Reading Quotes - Page 67

I am a part of everything that I have read.

I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

No furniture is so charming as books.

Ishvara is the highest manifestation of the Absolute Reality, or in other words, the highest possible reading of the Absolute by the human mind. Creation is eternal, and so also is Ishvara.

We don’t exhaust the Bible even after reading it hundreds of times. Each time we read it we see it in a new light. That is the greatness of the holy scriptures. They are that way because they were created by holy prophets who experienced the truth. Each time we read these works we elevate ourselves to see a little more. (81)

Richer than I you can never be, I had a mother who read to me.

With the Black Company series Glen Cook single-handedly changed the face of fantasy—something a lot of people didn’t notice and maybe still don’t. He brought the story down to a human level, dispensing with the cliché archetypes of princes, kings, and evil sorcerers. Reading his stuff was like reading Vietnam War fiction on peyote.

The path is revealed in the treading.

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

Outstanding high school writers reported extensive summer reading

If you organize your family life to spend even ten or fifteen minutes a morning reading something that connects you with these timeless principles, its almost guaranteed that you will make better choices during the day--in the family, on the job, in every dimension of life. Your thoughts will be higher. Your interactions will be more satisfying. You will have a greater perspective. You will increase that space between what happens to you and your response to it. You will be more connected to what really matters most.

Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.

When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king and his mistress.

When I was a kid, I loved reading Sherlock Holmes. Now, you don't think of him as a superhero, but he was so damn much smarter than anybody else.

To genuinely discover your Spirit, stop talking, stop reading, and start listening to your heart.

It feels great to wake up feeling healthy, awake and alert. I love waking up in the morning, taking a deep breath, reading the newspaper and going to the gym - as opposed to carrying a hangover right until lunch. That's horrible. It is nice to let off steam once in a while, but I find myself less involved with people in that sense. I like staying at home, reading a book, having a chat with my wife, a quiet dinner and going to bed early. I don't want to drink half a bottle of whisky and look 50 the next day. I have become an anti-drinking, anti-smoking agent.

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

If I don't get the goose-bump factor when I'm reading it than I can't do it.

For me, the iPhone is harder than reading Faust.

I think I wrote once that baseball in many ways is very much like reading. I said there are more bad books than bad ballgames, or maybe it was the other way around. I can't remember.

There are times when I think that the reading I have done in the past has had no effect except to cloud my mind and make me indecisive

For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.

Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.